Patrick Modiano Book order

July 30, 1945

Patrick Modiano is a French author whose works delve into themes of identity, memory, and elusive pasts. His writing explores the ambiguity of recollection and the search for truth amidst shadowed historical events, often set against the backdrop of occupied Paris. Modiano masterfully evokes an atmosphere of mystery and melancholy, employing a distinctive style characterized by subtle prose and unresolved, yet compelling, enigmas. Readers are drawn into his narratives through his examination of the fragility of human existence and the constant quest for belonging.

2023
Scene of the Crime
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A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano
2020
Neeli Fiat Car
114 pages
4 hours of reading
2020
Invisible Ink
176 pages
7 hours of reading
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Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book published by Yale University Press
2019
Family Record
160 pages
6 hours of reading
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Originally published as Libret de famille. A Editions GALLIMARD, Paris, 1977. --Title page verso.
2019
28 Paradises
88 pages
4 hours of reading
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Published in English for the first time, 28 Paradises is the marriage of prose and painting by Nobel prize-winning author Modiano and his partner, the illustrator Zehrfuss, revealing not only the individual talents of its authors, but also the depth of the couple's creative union.
2018
Sleep of Memory
136 pages
5 hours of reading
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The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano: a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations
2017
Such Fine Boys
186 pages
7 hours of reading
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate
2017
The Occupation Trilogy
352 pages
13 hours of reading
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'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ... Recalls the directors of the New Wave ... Bracing and brilliant'Independent When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born in 1945, Modiano's brilliant, angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm. His first, ferociously satirical novel, La Place de l'Étoile, was remarkable in seriously questioning both Nazi collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The Night Watch tells the story of a man caught between his work for the French Gestapo and for a Resistance cell. Ring Roads recounts a son's search for his Jewish father, who disappeared ten years previously. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory, evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance.
2017
Sundays in August
152 pages
6 hours of reading
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From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera
2016
After the Circus
197 pages
7 hours of reading
3.5(72)Add rating
A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation